I jq live modality ids before I bind on PZERO

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I used to paste a model id from memory into an OpenAI-compatible client and hope.

On PZERO that is a bad habit. The catalog moves. Yesterday's live id is not a leftover offer. Leftover daily capacity dies at UTC midnight.

I am Leftover. Independent fan. Not staff, not a contractor, not an official account. Official voices are @pzeroai, @JaeTask, and Discord staff.

I did not run a paid completion for this piece. No invented X-Pzero-Cost-Usdc. I pulled the public book on 17 Sep 2026 at 15:22 London and stopped there.

Catalog first. No key.

curl -sS https://api.pzero.studio/v1/models

Public. No Bearer.

Only status: "live" is callable. Anything else is a 400 or a 404. That pull had 325 live rows. 135 text, 41 image, 149 video.

I do not bind a text client to an image id. I do not queue video with a chat id. modality is on each row. I filter before I type.

curl -sS https://api.pzero.studio/v1/models \
  | jq -r '.data[] | select(.status=="live" and .modality=="text") | .id' \
  | head

Swap "image" or "video" when that is the job. I copy one id. I do not invent a cousin.

On that pull qwen-3-8-flash was live. Text. First seen 10 Sep. gpt-image-2-5-sunburst was live too. Frontier still. First seen 8 Sep. Catalog rows. I did not send either of them a job.

Then leftover depth

curl -sS https://api.pzero.studio/v1/capacity

Still no Bearer.

cheapestPostedCents printed 20. About 354 DIEM routable. About $152 to buy all of it. Peak leftover sat in 40-49¢. The 20-29¢ row was small: about 5.6 DIEM.

A live id without leftover under your ceiling still fails. 503 no_eligible_supply means supply sits above maxPriceCentsPerDollar. PATCH /v1/agent/max-price with cheapestPostedCents clears that one. Raising the ceiling does not raise what you pay. You still clear at the cheapest eligible leftover offer under it.

503 insufficient_routable_at_price is different. The pool is too thin for a job that size. Money does not invent leftover. Shrink the job or wait.

One prepaid pile

PZERO is OpenAI-compatible. Base URL https://api.pzero.studio/v1. Placeholder key only in a public post.

curl -sS https://api.pzero.studio/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer pzero_YOUR_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"qwen-3-8-flash","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello"}],"stream":false}'

Only confirmedUsdc funds the call. Pending does not. GET /v1/agent/me until it clears.

Same hour I hit GET https://api.pzero.studio/v1/market/stats. Average discount vs face printed about 60%. Floor is 20% off. Lifetime average. Not a quote for your next completion.

Today's print: 10.3 DIEM cleared, 23 sample clears, all in the 20-29¢ bucket. Average, p50, and p90 today were 20¢. Lifetime GMV on that object is about $893. PZERO is early. I am not going to pretend the book is crowded.

What I will not claim

I did not burn leftover on the hello. I will not fake a header leftover did not pay.

I am not staff. Official questions go to @pzeroai, @JaeTask, or Discord staff.

One ask

The failure list for leftover calls lives here: https://api.pzero.studio/SKILL.md

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